2/08/04

Bar top arcade cabinets
I am thinking about constructing a 'mini cabinet' for playing the classics such as PacMan, Dig Dug, Donkey Kong and Galaga.  I have seen some excellent examples of these "bartops".  A couple of them are: Oscar's Happy Hour Bartop MAME, ____, and ____.  This will be a good challenge as I intend to use only the materials I have on hand for this project.  I have a P90 and 15" monitor that have been gathering dust for several years that I hope to use.  I will post my progress here.

2/07/04

Relocating to my new home
I have been migrating my tripod site (mtrello1.tripod.com) to here the last few days. You should update your bookmarks accordingly. This new site affords me much more flexibility than ever before.  The 25meg of storage at Tripod was a constant headache. 

If you have been to the old site, you will notice I have taken the time to update the site's look.  The layout is still being tweaked but I hope you can find information more easily now.  The MAME cabinet plans remain in place on ArcadeCab, providing owners of the X-arcade with a viable cabinet choice. I have rearranged some of the other pages, consolidated some, and added this News section. I have also temporally removed the Sales page pending the completion of exciting new additions.

This News page will be updated regularly with items such as ongoing projects, plans, and other MAME news that might interest you.  Have a look around the site.  If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

2/04/04

Welcome!
The new site is finally 'up'!  Over the next several days I will be migrating my old website here to its new home.  There will likely be a lot of changes in format in the coming days, so please bear with me.  I wanted to get the cabinet plans moved here so I can begin moving traffic to here.

I have been communicating with two visitors (strangely enough, both named Chris) who have been discussing various aspects of my design.  One area that we are trying to improve is the way the marquee glass is supported.  When the final design modifications have been worked out and tested in an actual cabinet, I'll update the appropriate pages and post a notification  here.  If you have found something you thin is wrong or missing from my plans, please don't hesitate to let me know.  I want these plans to be as useful as possible to everyone.  Thanks!